Why Investors Shouldn't Be Surprised By Warom Technology Incorporated Company's (SHSE:603855) Low P/E

Warom Technology Incorporated Company's (SHSE:603855) price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of 16.4x might make it look like a strong buy right now compared to the market in China, where around half of the companies have P/E ratios above 38x and even P/E's above 75x are quite common. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the highly reduced P/E.

Warom Technology certainly has been doing a good job lately as its earnings growth has been positive while most other companies have been seeing their earnings go backwards. It might be that many expect the strong earnings performance to degrade substantially, possibly more than the market, which has repressed the P/E. If you like the company, you'd be hoping this isn't the case so that you could potentially pick up some stock while it's out of favour.

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Does Growth Match The Low P/E?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should far underperform the market for P/E ratios like Warom Technology's to be considered reasonable.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 32% gain to the company's bottom line. The latest three year period has also seen an excellent 37% overall rise in EPS, aided by its short-term performance. Accordingly, shareholders would have probably welcomed those medium-term rates of earnings growth.

Turning to the outlook, the next year should generate growth of 17% as estimated by the five analysts watching the company. Meanwhile, the rest of the market is forecast to expand by 37%, which is noticeably more attractive.

In light of this, it's understandable that Warom Technology's P/E sits below the majority of other companies. It seems most investors are expecting to see limited future growth and are only willing to pay a reduced amount for the stock.

The Bottom Line On Warom Technology's P/E

Generally, our preference is to limit the use of the price-to-earnings ratio to establishing what the market thinks about the overall health of a company.

We've established that Warom Technology maintains its low P/E on the weakness of its forecast growth being lower than the wider market, as expected. Right now shareholders are accepting the low P/E as they concede future earnings probably won't provide any pleasant surprises. Unless these conditions improve, they will continue to form a barrier for the share price around these levels.

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